PALLADIUM
\pɐlˈe͡ɪdi͡əm], \pɐlˈeɪdiəm], \p_ɐ_l_ˈeɪ_d_iə_m]\
Definitions of PALLADIUM
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
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Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.
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A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.
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Any statue of the goddess Pallas; esp., the famous statue on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy.
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Hence: That which affords effectual protection or security; a sateguard; as, the trial by jury is the palladium of our civil rights.
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A rare metallic element of the light platinum group, found native, and also alloyed with platinum and gold. It is a silver-white metal resembling platinum, and like it permanent and untarnished in the air, but is more easily fusible. It is unique in its power of occluding hydrogen, which it does to the extent of nearly a thousand volumes, forming the alloy Pd2H. It is used for graduated circles and verniers, for plating certain silver goods, and somewhat in dentistry. It was so named in 1804 by Wollaston from the asteroid Pallas, which was discovered in 1802. Symbol Pd. Atomic weight, 106.2.
By Noah Webster.
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A chemical element having an atomic weight of 106.4, atomic number of 46, and the symbol Pd. It is a white, ductile metal resembling platinum, and following it in abundance and importance of applications. It is used in dentistry in the form of gold, silver, and copper alloys.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A statue of Pallas, on the preservation of which the safety of ancient Troy was supposed to depend: any safeguard: a rare metal found with platinum.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A metallic element, which has the property of occluding large quantities of elementary hydrogen. Symbol, Pd. Atomic weight, 106.5. Palladious chlorid, PdCl2, is used as a test for carbon monoxid gas, with which it forms a brown or black precipitate.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Latin, Greek] A statue of the goddess Pallas, on the preservation of which depended the safety of ancient Troy;—something that affords effectual defence, protection, and safety;—a metal discovered in 1803 by Wollaston, of a steel grey colour and fibrous structure.